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9781855661202

A Companion To Magical Realism

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    9781855661202

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    1855661209

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-20
  • Publisher: Tamesis Books Ltd
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Summary

This new Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez (in particular his recently published memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics 1(1)
Magical Realism: Style and Substance
1(12)
Stephen M. Hart
Magical Realism and Beyond: Ideology of Fantasy
13(7)
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Familiar Grounds, Novel Trajectories: The Fantastic, the Real and Magical Realism
20(5)
Stephen M. Hart
Wen-Chin Ouyang
PART I: GENEALOGIES, MYTHS, ARCHIVES
Introduction
25(3)
Stephen M. Hart
Swords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28(18)
Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and Garcia Marquez
46(9)
Donald L. Shaw
The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo
55(12)
Julia King
Stephen M. Hart
Alejo Carpentier's Re-invention of America Latina as Real and Marvellous
67(12)
Jason Wilson
The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses
79(9)
Lorna Robinson
Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to Tell the Tale
88(15)
Efrain Kristal
PART II: HISTORY, NIGHTMARE, FANTASY
Introduction
101(2)
Stephen M. Hart
History and the Fantastic in Jose Saramago's Fiction
103(11)
David Henn
Magical-realist Elements in Jose Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex
114(9)
Humberto Nunez-Faraco
Beyond Magical Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero
123(8)
Alejandra Rengifo
Cops, Robbers, and Anarcho-terrorists: Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question
131(11)
Michael Berkowitz
Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives
142(13)
Sarah Sceats
PART III: THE POLITICS OF MAGIC
Introduction
153(2)
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Humour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo
155(13)
Evelyn Fishburn
Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias
168(13)
Philip Swanson
Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
181(10)
Helene Price
Not So Innocent -- An Israeli Tale of Subversion: Dorit Rabinyan's Persian Brides
191(8)
Tsila (Abramovitz) Ratner
Magical Realism as Ideology: Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji
199(11)
Mark Morris
Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in Los funerales de la Mama Grande by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
210(18)
Robin Fiddian
PART IV: EMPIRE, NATION, MAGIC
Introduction
225(3)
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the Marvellous: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney
228(9)
Jonathan Allison
Empire and Magic in a Tuareg Novel: Ibrahim al-Kawni's al-Khusuf (The Lunar Eclipse)
237(10)
Stefan Sperl
Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb
247(9)
John D. Erickson
Of Numerology and Butterflies: Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
256(11)
Stephanie Jones
From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias Khoury
267(14)
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Guide to Further Reading
281(4)
Stephen M. Hart
Kenneth Reeds
Selected Bibliography 285(6)
Stephen M. Hart
Index 291

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